The document discusses 20 different trivia questions related to business, technology and pop culture. Each question is accompanied by 1-2 sentences of additional context clues. The questions cover topics like Apple's original logo, ZipDial being acquired by Twitter, the phrase "Think Outside the Box", Xiaomi smartphones, Faasos food delivery company, Pixar's Brave film credits, Niue currency, Peter Thiel's book, the term "bug" originating from a moth in a computer, the early "mouse" device inspiring modern mice, Microsoft creating the first PC operating system, the Bollywood film Guru loosely based on Dhirubhai Ambani's life, KitKat changing to dark chocolate during WWII, IBM

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3. ‘Newton… A mind forever
voyaging through strange
seas of thought… alone.’ In
which specific place
would you find these
words written together?
Apple’s first logo, designed by Ron Wayne, depicts Sir
Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. It was almost
immediately replaced by Rob Janoff's "rainbow Apple",
the now-familiar rainbow-colored silhouette of an
apple with a bite taken out of it 1

4. X was set up by California-born
Valerie Wagoner who moved
to India and was intrigued by
the Indian ‘missed call’ system
– where people call each other,
let it ring once or twice and
intentionally hang up, using
the missed call to convey a
message. X’s clients include
Narendra Modi, Shahrukh
Khan, Disney and Unilever
among others. X please!
ZipDial, It was acquired by twitter for 30 Million in
January, 2015 2

5. The origin of this comes from a
brain teaser where you're
challenged to draw four straight,
connected lines that pass
through all the nine dots in a 3x3
matrix. The only way to
successfully do this is to draw
lines that go beyond the implicit
"box" delimited by the outer 8
dots of the matrix. It is
something we are often asked to
practice in business and life.
Which phrase?
“Think outside the box” 3

6. Identify the
e-commerce site.
www.mi.com, Xiaomi Inc. is a privately
owned Chinese electronics company
headquartered in Beijing. It is the world's 5th
largest smartphone maker in 2015 Xiaomi
sold 70.8 million units and was countable for
almost 5 percent of the smartphone global
market share. Xiaomi designs, develops, and
sells smartphones, mobile apps, and related
consumer electronics.
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7. According to a Forbes article, this
Indian startup traces the origins of
its name to an African nation,
whose name means ‘The land of the
incorruptible’. In other interviews,
however, the founders have tried to
explain the etymology of the name
by calling the company to have
been a Fanatic Activism Against
Substandard Occidental Shit.
Which company?
Faasos is the only vertically integrated food business in
India and operates all three three stages of a "food on
demand" business: ordering, distribution and order
fulfillment.
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8. The following
appears in the end
credits of the 2012
Pixar animated
film, Brave. Whose
name has been
blanked out?
“Steve Jobs”
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9. Which country’s
currency are
these?
Niue is a small island nation in the South Pacific
Ocean. It’s known for its limestone cliffs and
coral-reef dive sites.
7

10. Who is the author
of this book?
Peter Andreas Thiel (born October 11, 1967) is a
German-American entrepreneur, venture
capitalist and hedge fund manager. Thiel
co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon
Musk and served as its CEO. He also co-founded
Palantir, of which he is chairman. He was the first
outside investor in Facebook, the popular
social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake
acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the
company's board of directors. 8

11. Grace Hopper is one of the most
celebrated women in the history
of technology. While working on
the Harvard Mark II computer
one night, the machine conked
out and the crew began looking
for a problem. They found a moth
that had been smaashed by one of
the electromechanical layers and
this incident popularized a term
in programming that has been
used ever since. What was the
term?
“BUG”
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12. This is a mechanical
planimeter, a device which is
used to measure the area of a
surface by simply rolling it
around the perimeter of the
surface. This mechanical
device inspired an early
innovator to create one of
the most important devices
in the digital age?
“MOUSE”
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13. After the huge success of personal
computers in the late 70s, IBM decided to
make a move in the PC market. IBM
needed an operating system and it
approached X for it. X didn't yet make an
operating system and hence it directed
them to Gary Kildall, the creator of the
CP/M operating system. IBM went to
Kildall the same day but Kildall decided
not to meet them and instead decided to
fly his private plane. After meeting
Kildall's wife, IBM was quite disappointed
and they reached out to X for help. The
founder of X sensed the opportunity of
the moment and decided to create an
operating system.Give me X.
“MICROSOFT”
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14. Guru is a 2007 Bollywood
movie directed by Mani
Ratnam and it stars
Abhishek Bachchan and
Aishwarya Rai. The movie
is loosely based around
the life of a famous Indian
businessman. Which
famous businessman am I
talking about?
“DHIRUBHAI AMBANI”
12

15. For a period during 1940 to
1945, KitKat was sold in a blue
wrapper rather than the usual
red wrapper we generally find
it in. This was done because of
the shortage of milk which had
forced the company to make
Kitkat from dark chocolate
instead of milk chocolate. What
had caused this change?
“WORLD WAR II”
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16. A Boy And His Atom is a 2012
stop-motion animated short
film released on YouTube by
IBM. The picture shows a scene
of the short movie. What is so
special about this movie?
“The movie was made using
molecules(Carbon Monoxide
Molecules)”
14

17. Connect: Narcos,
House Of Cards,
Daredevil, Orange Is
The New Black,
Marco Polo.
(Non-exhaustive list)
“Netflix. They are all shows that are
Netflix originals.”
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18. Located at the Apollo
Bunder on the western coast
of India, this is one of the
major landmarks of the
country. It served as a 600
bed hospital during the
World War 1. What am I
talking about?
“Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai”
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19. Print ad for
which iconic
brand?
“FEVICOL”
17

20. TATA Motors launched their
third entry into the hatchback
market with TATA X during
the Auto Expo 2016. However
they changed the name of the
car from TATA X to TATA
Tiago as the name X matched
with a certain entity that was
troubling the Americas. Why
did they change the name?
“Original name was TATA Zica,
sounded similar to Zika, the virus.”
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21. The picture shows the
first something in the
world. What?
“TELEPHONE”
19

22. Which company’s famous
ad campaign is this? The
answer is ironic because
the Indian company that
ran the ad campaign has
the term ‘British’ in it’s
name.
“BPL (British Physical Laboratories)” 20
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